I always been fortunate to be associated with a institute with a good academic library so I haven't really kept up with illegal or semi-illegal ways of getting access to scholarly material.
It's the beginning of 2016, and nostalgia once again makes me look back at my past posts to see how they have stood the test of time.
Devices and workflow - A mini review of Moto 360 In the early years of my blog, I used to post about my use of my new devices like iPhone (2010), iPad (2011) and web services that I use. I've now switched over to the android world, current setup is Android Note 4 + Nexus 7 (2013). A few months back in Oct I got a Moto 360 v1 at a fairly cheap price to try out the Android wear smartwatch.
One of the more interesting issues around the rise of web scale discovery service systems like Summon, Primo, Ebsco Discovery Service and Worldcat Local is the place of abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases like Scopus, Web of Science or more disciplinary specific databases like Psycinfo.
I am always trying out new tools to organize and improve my work and my current workflow involves the use of Google Keep , Dropbox and Google Now reminders (having moved away from Google tasks).
As librarians we are often called upon to teach not just library databases but also Google and Google Scholar.
As my institution recently switched to Primo, nowadays I lurk in the Primo mailing list.
I recently signed up to a "research methods" class whose aim was to help practitioners like me produce high quality LIS papers.
I had the privilege to attend ALA annual conference 2015 in San Francisco this summer.
I have had experience implementing Summon in my previous institution and currently have some experience with EDS and Primo (Primo Central).
I am right now involved in helping my current institution shift towards a new Library Service Platform and discovery service (Alma and Primo) and this has given me an opportunity once again to rethink traditional library tools like citation linkers, A-Z journal and databases lists.